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A Police chief has urged those not involved in the English Defence League (EDL) rally to steer clear of the protest tomorrow. Kirklees police commander Chief Supt David Lunn urged local people who are not part of the demonstrations to avoid them and help police ensure that disruption more...

A supporter of the English Defence League has admitted throwing a firecracker into a crowd of anti-Jubilee protesters in Newcastle after he was caught on camera by Sky Tyne and Wear. Our undercover cameras captured Anthony Crawford, 22, lighting a firecracker before throwing it into a group of demonstrators at more...

Eleven people have today (Tuesday, June 26th) been sentenced for their part in disorder in Brierfield last summer. The eleven people pleaded guilty to a variety of offences on the second day of a trial at Preston Crown Court earlier this year (see full details of guilty pleas and sentences more...

An English Defence League mob which descended on an East Lancashire town for a flash mob protest have been branded 'a pack of wild animals'. Five of the gang have today been jailed for their parts in the brawl. One Asian teenager was punched and kicked during the disturbance last more...

Racist thug Natalie Dodsworth is today back behind bars after launching another race hate tirade on the same shopkeeper she targeted 18 months ago. Dodsworth was handed a 12-month prison sentence for biting Balwant Singh and trashing his off licence on High Street, Jarrow, in January last year, when he more...

The BBC has issued an apology over the way in which a Question Time producer responded to a follower of David Icke, the outlandish conspiracy theorist. Sorry seems to be the hardest word for Mark Thompson, the director-general of the BBC, when it comes to its widely criticised coverage of more...

A football fan has been convicted of racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra and the club's supporters in a match at Anfield. Phillip Gannon, 58, of north Wales, was seen on television doing a racially offensive monkey impression, Liverpool Magistrates' Court was told. The incident took place during a more...

A Wigton woman who is the daughter of BNP leader Nick Griffin said she felt terrified as she read threatening text messages allegedly from a man pursuing her father for a debt. Jennifer Matthys, who has lived in north Allerdale since October 2010, told this to a jury at Carlisle more...

Two Gwent men escaped a jail sentence yesterday after they admitted writing offensive comments on Facebook. Cwmbran Magistrates’ Court heard labourer James Rogers, of Deepweir, Caldicot, wrote on his Facebook account on March 25: “What the ****? Just at Magor Services and there was a Muslim rag head praying on more...

A member of the British National Party and former Stoke-on-Trent councillor has denied charges of racism. Michael Coleman, 45, of Caverswall Road, Weston Coyney, denied two counts of racially aggravated harassment. The charge relates to allegedly racist language used in two articles on his website between 8 August 2011 and more...

Mitchell Stancombe began his alleged incitement by posting: ‘When are we going to start the Southampton riots then?’ When a friend told the 21-year-old to shut up, he replied: ‘LOL – do a few coppers in.’ He then added: ‘f*** them. Hardly can do f*** all if we get loads more...

Meetings of the controversial English Defence League have been banned at a Norwich pub after a string of complaints. About 45 members of the group, which is associated with violent demonstrations, have met at the Marlpit pub in Hellesdon Road. No trouble was reported and another meeting was booked for more...

Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party, was targeted by a businessman who threatened to “break every bone” in his daughter’s body if he was not paid £44,000 he believed he was owed, a court heard. Sloan, 33, is alleged to have telephoned Mr Griffin’s elderly parents to threaten more...

A hate filled firebomber led cops to his door after boasting of his attack on Facebook. Tomis Mankos could have killed a young Jewish family when he hurled a firework though their bedroom window. Gershon Miller’s 11-year-old daughter fled when Mankos threw the lit explosive into their home in Bensham, more...

Rio Ferdinand and Vincent Kompany have criticised Uefa after Croatia's were fined £64,561 fine for racism. Croatia's punishment for fans' abuse of Mario Balotelli was more than £15,000 less than Nicklas Bendtner's £80,000 fine for revealing sponsored pants . Manchester City captain Kompany called on Uefa to "review their priorities", more...

Uefa has opened disciplinary proceedings against the German Football Association (DFB) for "improper conduct" by their fans during the Euro 2012 Group B match against Denmark on Sunday. "The DFB is charged with the setting-off of fireworks and the improper conduct of supporters (display of inappropriate banners and symbols, and more...

Pigs trotters have been tied around a statue of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust. Graffiti on a memorial declares "This is not your country dirty Jews - you are going to be shot there", pointing towards the Danube, where in 1944 more...

A German neo-Nazi helped the Black September Palestinian terrorists who kidnapped and murdered Israeli athletes during the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972, according to a news report. The Munich massacre of 1972 has long been considered the sole work of Palestinian terrorist group Black September, but more...

Uefa is investigating reports that a banana was thrown onto the pitch during Croatia’s Group C game against Italy in Poznan, although neither country have lodged an official protest. The claim is the second racism-related incident involving Italy duringEuro 2012 following allegations that striker Mario Balotelli was subjected to more...

A security operation costing up to £1 million and involving 700 police officers is being organised ahead of an English Defence League (EDL) march in Bristol. The EDL will hold the march on July 14 – the same day as the city's gay community holds its annual Pride festival at more...

A herd of llamas starved after being deprived of food on a holding in Yorkshire, a court was told. Harrogate magistrates heard five of John Shaw’s llamas died, while the other animals were found in an emaciated state in a frozen field on the outskirts of Knaresborough in February, with more...

Two men have been arrested after EDL members clashed with anti-jubilee protestors in a city centre flare-up. Police launched an investigation after trouble broke-out on Monday June 4 during a protest at the Monument, in Newcastle city centre, when firecrackers went off among a crowd of people.A teenage protestor suffered more...

Mario Balotelli was racially abused during his side's Euro 2012 opener as hundreds of Spain fans made monkey noises at the Italy striker. Just days after reports of the Holland team being on the receiving end of vile abuse during a training session in Krakow, the latest race storm has more...

Italian football star Mario Balotelli was subjected to a tirade of racist abuse at Euro 2012 last night – and stewards thought it was funny. Around 300 Spanish fans made constant monkey chants at the Manchester City striker during the 1-1 draw with Spain. Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander has more...

Over 30 years ago, around the time of the death of Oswald Mosley, David Irving bemoaned the poor quality of the senior activists and thinkers of the British far Right. He hoped that groups such as the Clarendon Club and his own Focal Point Publications would help rectify this. Irving more...

The monkey sounds that greeted the Holland team at their training session this week were an embarrassment to the Polish authorities. The problem of racial abuse of footballers is now on everyone’s radar and it has to be dealt with. There is no place to hide here at Euro 2012. more...

Roy Hodgson said on Friday he feared that England’s players would be subjected to racial abuse during Euro 2012. On the day Uefa finally confirmed that the Dutch squad had been the victims of racist chanting during a training session in England’s base city of Krakow on Wednesday, the more...

Rooney stood transfixed in front of the picture. So did his fellow Englandteam-mates Andy Carroll, Phil Jagielka, Jack Butland, Joe Hart, Theo Walcott and Leighton Baines in the Auschwitz Museum. Roy Hodgson, his close friend Avram Grant and the Football Association chairman David Bernstein, whose father escaped from the Nazis, more...

Joe Hart has stressed the importance of England's visit to Auschwitz after revealing his father convinced him to see the former Nazi death camp. Hart was among the members of Roy Hodgson's 23-man European Championship squad to volunteer to make the 40-mile trip west from their Krakow base on Friday more...

Uefa has confirmed there were "isolated incidents of racist chanting" aimed at Netherlands players during an open training session for Euro 2012. But the governing body has not revealed whether it is investigating the incident in Krakow, Poland. Dutch captain Mark van Bommel said monkey chants were directed at players. more...

Uefa have "no plans" to launch an investigation into allegations Holland's black players were racially abused during a training session in Krakow. Members of Bert van Marwijk's European Championship squad were allegedly subjected to monkey chants during an open training session on Wednesday, with captain Mark van Bommel yesterday branding more...

Black players face disciplinary action if they leave the pitch over racist abuse during Euro 2012. Italy striker Mario Balotelli insisted he would walk off if he was the victim of racial taunts at the tournament being held in Poland and Ukraine but Michel Platini, the UEFA president, confirmed such more...

Rochdale shop owners are preparing ahead of tomorrow’s English Defence League march. The far-right movement will descend on the town at 1.30pm to demonstrate against what they see as an expansion of Muslim extremism. Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk urged the town to continue as usual. He said: “Tomorrow’s ‘protest’ is more...

SUPPORTERS of alleged tram racist Emma West are selling badges and proclaiming her to be a "British Hero" ahead of her trial. The pins, emblazoned with "Emma West was right", are being sold on Ebay for £2.50 each. West, 28, of Grenville Road, New Addington, has pleaded not guilty more...

A court heard how police called to a "large scale disorder" were forced to use pepper spray and brandish Tasers to tackle a "very aggressive" crowd. Two men, Ricky Burley, aged 43 and 34-year-old Michael Rafferty both appeared at Plymouth Magistrates Court to face trial on charges of resisting police more...

The racism controversy which has stalked the Euro 2012 championships reached England's own base last night as the captain of the Dutch national side, who are also located here, said his national football association would complain to Uefa about monkey chants directed at players during a training session. Mark van more...

A “Hate campaign” against families in Kidderminster’s Sutton Park area has seen racially offensive signs put up outside their homes and one of their pets killed. Crimestoppers has now offered a £2,000 reward to help track down the offenders following an escalation in incidents of harassment directed at the families more...

Madonna has caused uproar after screening a video during a concert of French far-right leader Marine Le Pen with a swastika superimposed on her head - during a concert in Tel Aviv. Now furious Le Pen (43) leader of the National Front has warned her not to repeat the stunt more...

A Group of Slovakians have been assaulted in Hastings in what police believe was a racially-motivated incident. The Slovakians were attacked outside the Pig in Paradise at White Rock at just before midnight while sitting on the beach. The men had been waiting for a friend when, according to Sussex more...

At least a hundred right-wing extremists support Anders Behring Breivik's brutal terror attacks last July, the leader of the English Defence League's Norwegian sister organisation told an Oslo court on Tuesday. "I know there are many out there who share Breivik's views and support his actions," Ronny Alte, the more...

A teenager was taken to hospital when his hair was set alight by English Defence League supporters who attacked an anti-Jubilee party in Newcastle. The 18-year-old, who does not wish to be identified, was hit by a burning firework thrown during the clash at Grey's Monument between more than 100 more...

Police have been ordered to return private CCTV footage of a firebomb attack to a man with a violent past - despite fears it could help him find and kill the person responsible. Merseyside Police had argued for retaining footage belonging to Joseph 'Joey' Owens, who had gangster connections, to more...

The sentencing of a group of English Defence League (EDL) supporters was adjourned for a second time after the man dubbed their “commander” collapsed in court. Judge Norman Wright postponed the Preston Crown Court case after being told Bernard Holmes was lying “semi comatose” in the public gallery yesterday. more...

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